Was at a computer show this weekend in San Francisco where I came across this little box. Bought one for $345. Added a 60gig Maxtor 7200 rpm HD; 512mb of DDR2100; a 40x CD-RW; 3.5" floppy; WinXP and a GeForce Ti200 64mb card I had on hand. Formatted the HD; installed XP; did all the updates (system froze several times); added the 4in1's on the CD along with several otehr drivers. Updated the GF to the latest drivers. Finished by putting McAfee AV on.

Bought it for my sons to use since they travel to other houses a lot. The LAN party box concept appealed to me.

Found the access tough for my big hands. Weighs in aroound 20lb loaded. Runs quiet. I like it and we'll see how it runs over time. If the unit was say $225-$250 range then I think they could sell a LOT of them.

Hi all, we have two of these units we use at lan partys for Counter-Strike.
One of the problems we have found that no one seems to address is with the on-board audio. If we lug in Sony headset or Labtec headset or Several different external audio systems, we get reversed audio.

We ran the audio test that shows the sound coming out the left and right sides, when it comes out the right, we hear it on the right side.

Anyone know of a way to mod this, or shall i just say forget it and get a Audigy card.?

I would really like to have the fix for this.

Thanks

squitoModerator

Joined: 05 Dec 2000 Posts: 5941
Location: USA

Posted:
Sat Jan 04, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the LWD Forum StarLog - first time I heard about this problem - wf !!!

Yeah, me too. Sorry I don't have many ideas for you except... some games, under OPTIONS have have a checkbox you can select to reverse the left and right audio channels. Go into the game and look around the audio section for this option.

StarLogStray Dog

Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 6
Location: Clermont, Fl USA

Posted:
Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:01 pm Post subject:

I have the fix!

Take a RCA~stereo adapter that takes a single 1/8" connector and breaks it into a red RCA conn. and a white RCA conn., 1/8"(male) and the RCA's(female). Then get a cable that has 2 male RCA's that drops down to a single female 1/8" conn.

Plug the red RCA male to the white RCA female and vise-versa. This will reverse the sound and in turn make it accurate.

I just picked up a gBox CF-868. Yes, I know it is somewhat dated now, but it was a good deal and I believe it will be sufficient for my needs. My question is this: what do I need to do in terms of getting the most updated drivers? I will be installing Windows XP Professional and subsequently updating it with Microsoft Windows Update--will that get me squared away on the hardware drivers for the gBox or do I need to get the updated drivers myself? If I need to get the drivers myself, please give me details on what drivers from which manufacturers and what the appropriate websites are.

Also, is version 1.03 the most current BIOS version? That seems to be what this page indicates:

The release history says "Support 130GB HDD+." Does the "+" mean that it supports bigger than 130 GB drives? If not, what will happen if I use 160 GB drives? Will I not be able to use them at all or will I only be able to use them as 130 GB drives where 30 GB are just wasted? I think this is a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway: is it possible to partition the 160 GB drives to 30 GB and 130 GB and thereby not waste the 30 GB?

And finally: is upgrading the BIOS difficult? The instructions given on the above URL look to be fairly easy to follow; the only part that I don't fully understand is how to save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS to a bootable floppy disk (the instructions do not say how that is accomplished). Is that something I should even do? If so, how do I do it?

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help me I got a Hauppauge 150MCE that I want to build in my Ecube CFI-S86
For some strange reason I am unable to get the PCI slot to work.
When I start up the mem check stops with 0 ont the counter ore everything stays black.
Doen anyone have a idea ore a bios update to fix this?

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